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you love to see it
a paragraph from the Wired article linked below: Data Center Watch’s first report covered a period from May 2024 to March of 2025; in that period, it found, local opposition had blocked or delayed a total of $64 billion in data center projects (six projects were blocked entirely, while 10 were delayed). But Data Center Watch’s new report found that opposition blocked or delayed $98 billion in projects from March to June of 2025 alone—eight projects, including two in Indiana and Kentucky, were blocked in those three months, while nine were delayed. One of those projects, a $17 billion development in the Atlanta suburbs, was put on hold in May after the county imposed a 180-day moratorium on data center development, following significant pushback from local residents.
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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very occasionally, if you are quiet and patient, you can observe one in the wild:
screenshot of an AO3 fic. text ellipses and line breaks around the "Oh." and then the italicized "Oh." before the story continues
November 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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today's the one-year anniversary of the day we lost Rorschach. I miss my boy. He was the best boy.
a black and white pitbull lying on his side amid blankets. His dual colour paw is prominent in the foreground and his inside out ear is adorable in the background. a black and white pitbull looking up at a person who is offscreen. He looks patient and attentive.
November 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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I only recently realized that the Lower Decks opening credits take this scene directly from TNG's Realm of Fear (in which the Enterprise is assisting the crew of the USS Yosemite (get it), a science vessel that got stuck in the plasma stream). Lower Decks you are an unending delight
screencap from TNG "Realm of Fear." The Enterprise is positioned near a sun with a big orange plasma stream that radiates outward and curls around a blue astronomical body Screencap from the Lower Decks opening credits. The Cerritos is escaping from a plasma stream that curls around another astronomical body. It's very similar to the TNG screenshot, except the colors are reversed, so the plasma is blue and the astronomical body is orange.
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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lately I think a lot about this New American Movement poster from the seventies. as true now as it was then. (NAM is a precursor of the DSA)
hand-lettered poster. Title reads: "If you're unemployed it's not because there isn't any work." Text reads: "Just look around: a housing shortage, crime, pollution: we need better schools and parks. Whatever our needs, they all require work. And as long as we have unsatisfied needs, there's work to be done. So ask yourself, what kind of world has work but no jobs. It's a world where work is not related to satisfying our needs. A world where work is only related to satisfying the profit needs of business. This country was not built by the huge corporations or government bureaucracies. It was built by people who work. And, it is working people who should control the work to be done. Yet, as long as employment is tied to somebody else's profits, the work won't get done." At the bottom is some illegible text and the address for NAM 1 (New American Movement).
September 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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just want to point out that this middle section is exclusively Magnus Archives Scottish Safehouse fic (tho the sex is usually kissing. otherwise it's right on)
a list of tags from AO3: cosmic horror, eldritch horror, cottagecore, crying during sex, cryptids
September 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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literally I have a shirt that says MAKE BAD ART lol

there's also the Cheap Art Manifesto (sorry, not image described, I gotta go to work)
September 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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sure, I'll play:
screenshot of my AO3 profile with my user icon and pseudonym (thingswithwings). It says I joiend 2009-11-13 and my user ID is 438
September 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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here's the outfit he was wearing when about to use his saddle, hope that clears things up
Picard walking down the corridor of the Enterprise. He is wearing knee-high black leather boots, a red velvety coat, tight grey pants, and a cleavage-bearing green shirt. He is carrying a saddle.
July 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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trekkies: if you see this, post your first experience with Star Trek.

(this is tough because I know I watched a lot of TNG as a kid that I don't remember, but this is the first episode I have a very concrete memory of watching when it aired. because it FREAKED ME THE HELL OUT)
two images from Star Trek: TNG. Both are Beverly Crusher, in her blue lab coat, standing and then sitting at the helm of the Enterprise. The first one has the caption "If there's nothing wrong with me . . . " and the second one has the caption "Maybe there's something wrong with the universe."
July 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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omg honey lavender ice cream sounds amazing! here's the recipe (from my stepmother).
Janet's Lavender Jelly 

 3 1/2 cups water
 1/2 cup dried lavender flowers
 Juice of 1 lemon (1/4 cup)
 1 (1 3/4-ounces) box powdered pectin or 1 pouch (3-ounces) liquid pectin
 4 cups sugar 
In a large saucepan over high heat bring water just to a boil. Remove from heat, stir in dried lavender flowers, and let steep for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, strain mixture into a deep kettle or pot, discarding the lavender flowers. Stir in lemon juice and pectin; continue stirring until the pectin is dissolved.
 Over high heat, bring the mixture to a boil; add sugar. When the jelly solution returns to a hard rolling boil, let it boil for 2 to 4 minutes (see below), stirring occasionally.
After boiling, transfer the jelly into hot sterilized jars. Fill them to within 1/4 inch of the top, wipe any spilled jam off the top, seat the lids and tighten the ring around them. 
Makes five 1/2 pints.
July 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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non-controversial list is something like:
TOS Mudd's Women
TNG Code of Honor
ENT Cogenitor
VOY Retrospect or TNG A Matter of Perspective
DS9 Melora

controversial list is more like:
DS9 Far Beyond the Stars
TOS Space Seed
TNG A Fistful of Datas
DS9 Sons of Mogh
VOY Fury
screenshot of Benjamin Sisko pointing at someone offscreen, wearing a disappointed expression. Text: "You claim to love Star Trek? Then name 5 episodes you hate!!!"
June 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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baby groundhogs + mom groundhog chilling on the deck of our pool this morning
picture of a wooden deck by a pool surrounded by plants and a rose bush. A big groundhog sits facing away from camera, with a smaller groundhog in an identical pose slightly behind. a third groundhog, also small, sits on the grass behind them, just off the edge of the deck. a picture of a wooden deck by a pool with three groundhogs sitting on the corner of the deck. One is bigger, lying down with its head up and alert; the other two are about half its size and cuddled up next to it.
June 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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scrolling through a selection of pride-themed t-shirts and I do have one question about whether Canadian Tire is inherently gay
a selection of eight t-shirts. one says "just be a great human" with a rainbow lego figure, one has a rainbow design, one has the progress pride flag with some people on it, one is the leather pride flag, one says "proud mary" in rainbow, one says "no apologies" and shows a burning car (a reference to the Harvey Milk protests), and one has a rainbow sheep. In the middle, one of the t-shirts is just the Canadian Tire logo.
June 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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what are your favourite titles from peer-reviewed academic articles? here are a few I have saved to show students different ways to title an essay, including rhyme, mimicking, sexy pun, and Just Keep It Simple. I'd love more examples, tho!
Academic article titled "Identifying species from pieces of feces" Article titled "It's only a meme if it's from the knowledge organization region of information science, otherwise it's just a tweet" Article titled "Gender is dynamic for all people" Article titled "The Desire for a Yank: Sexual Relations Between Australian Women and American Servicemen during World War II"
April 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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post a warning
Left part of sign: a black and white diagram/image of a person being pulled under a whirlpool, labelled "People have died by swimming here." Right part of sign reads "Gorge Regulations: swimming is prohibited, please remain on trail, violators are subject to arrest. Strong undercurrents and debris trap people behind hidden rock ledges in a pool below the falls that is 30-50 feet deep." Then there is a quote from a recovery diver that reads "Even as a trained, properly equipped professional diver, I wouldn't swim here if I didnot have to recover a body."
March 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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best star trek crew, wrong answers only
photo of the Abbott Elementary cast huddled together and smiling
March 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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ps
a big lizard with a large chin is resting with its eyes closed. a much smaller lizard is clinging to the back of its head and staring at the camera with its mouth open as if hollering at the viewer.
February 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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we have been showing Star Trek to some of our dear friends who haven't seen Star Trek before, and we finally got to the place where we could show them Voyager, so I made fake AO3 pages for DS9 and Voyager to clarify the differences between them and now I share them with you, the internet
AO3 page for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Tagged teen and up audience, graphic depictions of violence, major character death, F/M, Gen, other. Characters: Baseball Dad, Trans Space Worm, Terrorist Lesbian, Doctor Twink, Irish Mechanic, Goo Cop, Just Simple Garak, Crime Goblin, Guy From the Other Show, Freighter Captain Girlfriend, 30-Year-Old Crime Child, Jake Sisko. Additoinal Tags: Space Station, big hole in space, space politics, aliens, shapeshifters, interstellar war, noir crime solving, post-colonialism, baseball, lounge singing for some reason?, new orleans cuisine, wormhole aliens, prophecy, this space station needs an HR department, orbs, lots and lots of orbs, espionage, tailoring, pylons!, roleplay, costumes, the misogynist aliens with a gender caste system are our friends because cultural relativism, trauma, alternate universe shenanigans, what does it mean to be an alien. The summary is: the Federation manages this space station but kind of wishes they didn't. AO3 page for Star Trek: Voyager. Tagged teen and up audiences, no archive warnings apply, F/M, gen, other. Characters: The Psychosexual Vortex That Is Captain Kathryn Janeway, guerilla fighter slash anthropologist, engineer with anger management issues, this vulcan does so many mind melds, not nick lacarno, the one who already knows he's a service sub, troll doll chef, telepathic disney princess, doctor hologram, cyborg lesbian. Additional tags: where no human has gone before, not so tough without your starfleet are ya, artificial intelligence but in the 90s when it was cool, time travel shenanigans, cyborgs, italian culture for some reason?, the prime directive a lot, coffee, resource management, a surprising number of fish people, hot science ladies, participatory holodeck fandoms, brat taming, service submission, telepathy, what is memory, white writers just making stuff up about Native cultures, meeting another version of yourself, what does it mean to be a person
February 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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as many times as you need to make people understand, in my opinion! also you reminded me of this Quora post that I think about a lot
Screenshot of a Quora question. The question reads "Is it 'for fucks sake' or 'for fuck sake'? It's for a work email so it has to sound professional."
January 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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anti-canadian linguistic discrimination by Outlook's grammar check tool, smh
screenshot of a sentence that begins "I know you're done your project but thought . . ." with the word "done" underlined by the grammar check
December 13, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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My dear beloved dog Rorschach, who had been my boy for 14 years, passed away this morning. I'm sad and grieving but coping okay. Here's a picture of him doing one of his favourite old man hobbies: lying in a hole under a bush
a black and white pitbull with a white blaze on his face lying in a small depression in the dirt among some green plants. He's looking at the camera.
November 1, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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I think about this tumblr post all the time
tumblr post by user pinehutch. text of the post reads "Everyone's a descriptivist until The Phrase shows up." The hashtag says "me when 'a tad bit'"
September 19, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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here are some photos - on his first birthday in march 2011, and on our first adoptaversary in october 2011, then a couple of recent photos of my elder statesman
black and white pitbull with nose poking the camera, wearing a pink tiara that says happy birthday black and white pitbull looking intensely up at the camera; the cameraperson's hand is in frame holding a french fry a black and white pitbull with significantly more grey on his muzzle and paws lying in a little hole under a bush a black and white pitbull with significantly more grey hair sleeping on a yellow pillow on a green couch
August 3, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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:) I believe this person posted it yearly! I'm not 100% sure this is the original source but I thought I'd offer the info I have.
screencap of a tweet from Feb 13 2021, from user @DrGrammar (Dennis Baron). Tweet reads: "Roses are red, violets are blue. Singular they is older than singular you."
February 14, 2024 at 11:49 PM